Major Doug called Wang Xuexin's headquarters and asked: "Wang, how did you do it?"
"What?" Wang Xuexin asked knowingly.
"Destroyed the 'Zero War' brigade!" Major Doug said: "I heard that you developed new equipment?"
Before Major Doug made the call, he had already sent someone to inquire about the news. He heard that the reason why the Eighth Route Army Air Force won was because it used a rocket.
In fact, this was not what Major Doug "heard", but what Wang Xuexin had arranged for Principal Tang to "tell" him.
The reason is that Wang Xuexin knew that x1 could not be hidden, it was too dazzling, especially the "zero battle" that defeated the Japanese in large numbers, and this was what Yingjiang desperately needed.
Therefore, Yingjiang will definitely want to know the situation immediately and hope to obtain this equipment.
Wang Xuexin deliberately revealed something, which would increase the credibility of his excuses.
"Oh!" Wang Xuexin pretended to be suddenly enlightened and replied: "You are talking about x1? Let's name it x1."
"x1?" Major Doug immediately became interested: "What kind of equipment is it like?"
"It's not a new piece of equipment, Major!" Wang Xuexin replied: "It's actually a rocket grenade. You've also seen the rocket grenade carried by rocket fighters. We just added a proximity fuse to it!"
Major Doug said "Oh".
This statement is quite reasonable.
The disadvantage of the rocket is its low hit rate, while the hit rate is what the fuse needs to explode. If it fails to hit, it will not explode.
Therefore, the two form a deadlock that cannot be untied, making it difficult for rockets to be used in air combat.
If it is used in air combat, it will use a large number of rockets to increase the probability. Yingjiang is not very interested in this tactic.
But if the rocket is equipped with a proximity fuze, it will be different.
The rocket can detonate without hitting the target, and it will detonate at the closest position to the target.
Wang Xuexin continued to explain: "I just made some improvements to the rocket to make it more suitable for air combat."
"Like what?" Major Doug broke the pot and asked.
"For example, I added some prefabricated fragments to the warhead!" Wang Xuexin said nonsensically: "For another example, I reduced the propellant and increased the charge, and at the same time used better gunpowder!"
"It makes sense!" Major Doug nodded: "This makes the rockets equivalent to individual anti-aircraft artillery shells. The 'Zero War' has no protection and it is difficult to withstand the bombardment of such shells!"
"That's right, Major!" Wang Xuexin replied: "It's actually very simple. It's still the credit of the proximity fuze. Speaking of the proximity fuze, I have to thank you. Without the proximity fuze you provided, there would be no Eighth Route Army.
The aviation team wins today!”
Major Doug quickly replied: "No, no, this is what it should be. The proximity fuse is even your idea. It should be us thanking you!"
After hanging up the phone, Major Doug thought to himself:
This Chinese man is indeed unique. He designed the proximity fuze and then used it in many places, first in 'high fire' and then in the x1 for anti-air combat.
Didn't he use Eagle Sauce to create x1 with premeditation?
After hearing Major Doug's explanation, the people at Eagle Sauce didn't believe it at first, including General Doolittle.
Doolittle asked Major Doug: "Have you seen this with your own eyes? I mean actual combat!"
"No, no!" Major Doug replied.
"So did you see live ammunition?"
"Sorry, no!"
"Then why do you believe that what the Chinese battalion commander said is true?"
"Apart from this, are there any other reasonable explanations?" Major Doug asked.
Then Major Doug explained: "The Eighth Route Army Air Force was trained by me, general. When they became independent, there were only about 20 pilots capable of flying fighter planes, and most of the pilots could only fly rocket fighters.
From this point of view, I believe what the Chinese battalion commander said is true!"
Doolittle still didn't believe it: "But why did I get intelligence that this piece of equipment from the Eighth Route Army called x1 can change direction in the air and track targets?"
Major Doug was stunned for a while after hearing this, and then he realized: "General, you mean, those rockets changed direction with purpose?"
"Isn't it?"
"No, General!" Major Doug thought for a while and explained: "I believe you misunderstood. I think this is the deflection of the rocket due to the influence of the wind from the fighter plane. As you know, when a fighter plane flies, it will affect the nearby wind direction.
This wind direction will affect the rockets. The Japanese pilots were frightened by the rockets, so they regarded this deflection as a conscious and purposeful change of direction!"
Then Major Doug added: "So I make a bold guess that the information you got came from the Japanese, right?"
Doolittle was speechless.
Because Major Doug guessed correctly, his information indeed came from the Japanese.
Finally, Major Doug concluded: "What's more, General! If we can't produce such rockets that can consciously track targets, can the Eighth Route Army do it? I don't think so!"
General Doolittle agreed with this.
Although the Chinese battalion commander has many unexpected ideas, where is the industrial base of the Eighth Route Army? They even need to produce falcon paste for proximity fuzes. How can they produce such incredible equipment?
Therefore, in the end, Yingjiang believed what Major Doug said.
In fact, it was not only Taka-chan who believed this rhetoric, but even Okamura Neji himself did not believe the reports of his subordinates.
The pilots of the three surviving "Zeros" were not treated as heroes.
On the contrary, they were criticized and questioned by the military. It is not an exaggeration to say that they were even questioned.
This is determined by the so-called "bushido spirit" of the Japanese.
They believed that if the "Zero War" brigade was almost completely wiped out, then these few people should not come back alive.
Coming back alive means cowardice, timidity, running away...
If it weren't for Neji Okamura wanting to know what happened, they would have been thrown into jail long ago.
Okamura Neiji "interrogated" the three pilots respectively. The two pilots said with certainty that the Eighth Route Army's injection bombs were purposefully tracking their own fighters.
"Because they will change the route according to the maneuvering conditions of our fighters!" the pilot said with a look of fear: "I have never seen this kind of equipment, and no one else has either, so we suffered such heavy losses!"
Another pilot was "not sure": "I didn't see clearly what it was. I was at the rear of the team! I only knew that the fighter planes in front were blown to pieces..."
So there is a question before Okamura Neji: Can the words of these cowards who were frightened and fled back be credible?